Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City / Edition 1

by Mark Bould

Overview

Film Noir explores the murky world of a genre responsible for many of film's most enduring images. Mark Bould discusses problems of definition and the often ambiguous nature of film noir and looks at modern films that could be called neo-noir. Iconic and enduring, film noir attracted great stars (Bogart, Bacall, Mitchum, Lancaster), many of the best directors of the era (Wilder, Lang, Preminger, Hawks, Siodmak, Welles) and this book is an indispensible guide to this popular genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904764502
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	12/07/2005
Series:	Short Cuts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.87(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mark Bould is senior lecturer in film studies at the University of the West of England.

Table of Contents

A Note on Terminology
1. On Dangerous Ground: Introducing Film Noir
2. The Set-Up: Fabricating Film Noir
3. Out of the Past: The Prehistory of Film Noir
4. Dark Passage: The Main Cycle of Film Noir
5. Against All Odds, or, Out of the Past-Again: Neo-Noir
Bilbliography
Filmography